"Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "Mark Thorson" > wrote in message ...
>> Michelle wrote:
>>>
>>> I wondered if anyone had any tips or tricks for
>>> cooking with a broken arm. My sister had a car
>>> accident, and is in a cast for 5 weeks. Fortunately,
>>> it's the left arm, and she is right handed, so she can
>>> do a few things - but chopping is right out.
>>
>> When I couldn't use one hand, I'd open
>> a jar by getting on the floor, holding
>> the jar between my feet, and using my
>> my good hand. When that didn't work
>> with a particularly obstinate jar of
>> salsa, I had the brilliant idea of
>> relieving the vacuum in the jar by
>> stabbing the lid with a knife. That
>> worked! The lid came right off!
>>
>> Or maybe it didn't. Maybe disaster
>> ensued. I could be lying. You pay
>> your money, you take your chances.
>
> Hehehe. I remember Sheldon saying some stupid thing about doing
> something to the jar lid to break the seal. Only what he said to do
> would render the lid unusable. So it would work if you were going to use
> the whole jar at once but not if you wanted to keep some for later.

Normal people would put the leftovers in a different container, not toss it
out.
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